Woodstock 50th anniversary festival with original organizer announced

For those who want to relive the iconic music festival Woodstock, you’re in luck.

Michael Lang, one of the producers and co-creators of the 1969 Woodstock festival, said in an interview with Rolling Stonethat he is organizing a festival called “Woodstock 50.” The festival will be held Aug. 16-19 in Watkins Glen, New York.

The lineup will be announced and tickets will go on sale in February. More than 40 performers have already been booked, Lang said, including “hip-hop and rock and some pop and some of the legacy bands from the original festival.”

“Woodstock, in its original incarnation, was really about social change and activism,” he said. “And that’s a model that we’re bringing back to this festival. It’s a gathering for fun and for excitement and for experiences and to create community, but it’s also about instilling kind of an energy back into young people to make their voices heard, make their votes heard.”